{"id":2989,"date":"2008-04-10T12:48:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T17:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/04\/10\/signs-of-spring\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:20:11","slug":"signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/04\/10\/signs-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2098\/2403057643_dd1cf36785_o.jpg\" height=\"310\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Jenkins is one of my favourite public space artists. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmarkjenkinsx.com\/flowersigns.html\">His latest work<\/a> to celebrate the arrival of spring &#8212; in his home base of Washington DC &#8212; demonstrates that public art interventions can be extremely effective (and in this case quite charming) by being simple. 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